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Leveraging L2 Academic Writing: Digital Translanguaging in Higher Education
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Koralage, Tharanga; Choi, Julie; Cross, Russell – TESOL in Context, 2023
Although the literature on computer-assisted language learning has demonstrated that digital tools such as online translators and bilingual dictionaries offer affordances to second language (or foreign language) writers of English to solve linguistic (lexical and syntactic) issues, the extent to which digital technology supports multilingual…
Descriptors: Code Switching (Language), Language Usage, Academic Language, English (Second Language)
Language in Educational and Cultural Perspectives. Second Language Learning and Teaching
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Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk, Editor; Marcin Trojszczak, Editor – Second Language Learning and Teaching, 2023
This book comprises 20 chapters that have been divided into two distinct parts: language in educational contexts and language in cultural contexts. The contributions included in this book are the outcome of the conference Contacts and Contrasts that was held in Konin, Poland, in 2021 (C&C2021). The contributions featured in the first part of…
Descriptors: Applied Linguistics, Second Language Instruction, Second Language Learning, Translation
Negotiating Languages and Cultures: Enacting Translingualism through a Translation Assignment
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Kiernan, Julia; Meier, Joyce; Wang, Xiqiao – Composition Studies, 2016
This collaborative project explores the affordances of a translation assignment in the context of a learner-centered pedagogy that places composition students' movement among languages and cultures as both a site for inquiry and subject of analysis. The translation assignment asks students to translate scholarly articles or culture stories from…
Descriptors: Translation, Multilingualism, Assignments, English (Second Language)
Translating the CercleS European Language Portfolio into Portuguese for Plurilingual Development in a Community of Practice
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Arau Ribeiro, María del Carmen – Language Learning in Higher Education, 2014
In this paper plurilingual and autonomy building activities are described with reference to the CercleS European Language Portfolio and some parts of the original Council of Europe Language Portfolio. For this extracurricular plurilingual learning project in Portugal, eight second-year female students studying for a degree in Executive Secretarial…
Descriptors: Multilingualism, Personal Autonomy, Independent Study, Portfolios (Background Materials)
The Si's and Nein's of Computer-Aided Language Translation
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Goldsborough, Reid – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2009
The Internet is an American invention, and though it has spread around the world, the bulk of the communication conducted through it is still in English. Even so, depending on what one is searching for, he/she can come across web pages, blogs, and other content in many other languages. To deal with this multilingualism, various free…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Syntax, Translation
Generative Syntactic Transfer in L2 and L3 Acquisition via the Channel of Translation
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Shooshtari, Zohreh Gooniband – English Language Teaching, 2009
The purpose of this study was two-fold: it primarily intended to incorporate some insights into the newly-explored field of L3A: secondly, it aimed to highlight the significance of translation as a valid language activity in exploring the native language influence on non-native language acquisition process. To this end, it investigated the…
Descriptors: Translation, Second Language Learning, Multilingualism, Syntax